Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Amphibians Hidden Images Review (eduxtive)

The website eduxtive is an awesome site offering free, online, streaming
games with an educational twist. These games are fun, wholesome, family
friendly entertainment kids of all ages can enjoy! While the games are
undeniably fun, they are also highly valuable from an educational
standpoint, so parents and teachers alike can appreciate the nature of
these fun streaming properties.

Amphibians Hidden Images is one
such game offered on this awesome website. This game harkens back to the
"I Spy" series of books, a classic staple in reading for anyone who
grew up in the 80's and 90's, and en even more classic staple for the
years and years the game was played verbally between parents and their
children. The possibilities with the internet are certainly an upgrade
from the hard-cover books of old, although the interactivity of verbal
I-Spy, in a carefully chosen outdoors spot, is yet to be trumped. The
interactivity afforded with a mouse is quite a notable evolution in this
'genre' of gaming from the hard cover book days, however.

One
will notice the focus with Amphibians Hidden Images is on patterns and
textures. You aren't looking for a fly on the frogs back, for example.
You aren't looking for a lily pad in the background. What you seek out
are various, zoomed in portions of the image. There are four options to
choose from, as noted at the top of the screen. Once you click the
correct portion of the picture, new patterns / textures emerge.

The image is zoomed in to a fair degree, and this causes considerable
stretching. While the game is good to train the eyes for pattern and
texture recognition, it really should offer a higher quality image -
once could argue that things are zoomed in so close, it is more
difficult to find the image portions due to the image itself being
stretched to the point of distortion than a lack of pattern or texture
recognition skills.

In any case this game is a fun time-killer
which helps kids with reflexes and hand-eye-coordination. The website
itself is a treasure trove of games, waiting to be played!